TikTok announces updates to its Community Guidelines to further support the well-being of its community and the integrity of the platform.
Transparency with the community is important to TikTok and these updates clarify or expand upon the types of behaviour and content TikTok will remove from the platform or make ineligible for recommendation in the For You feed.
Building a safe and secure entertainment platform
TikTok believes that people should be able to express themselves creatively and be entertained in a safe, secure, and welcoming environment. The Community Guidelines support that by establishing a set of norms so that people understand what kinds of content to create on the platform and viewers know what to report.
Some of the main updates being announced today and implemented over the next few weeks include:
Strengthening its dangerous acts and challenges policy. TikTok continues to enact the stricter approach it previously announced to help prevent such content – including suicide hoaxes – from spreading on the platform.
Broadening the approach to eating disorders. While TikTok already removes content that promotes eating disorders, the platform will start to also remove the promotion of disordered eating. TikTok is making this change, in consultation with eating disorders experts, researchers, and physicians, as it understands that people can struggle with unhealthy eating patterns and behaviour without having an eating disorder diagnosis.
Adding clarity on the types of hateful ideologies prohibited on the platform. This includes deadnaming, misgendering, or misogyny as well as content that supports or promotes conversion therapy programs.
Expanding the policy to protect the security, integrity, availability, and reliability of our platform. This includes prohibiting unauthorised access to TikTok, as well as TikTok content, accounts, systems, or data, and prohibiting the use of TikTok to perpetrate criminal activity. In addition to educating the community on ways to spot, avoid, and report suspicious activity, TikTok is opening state-of-the-art cyber incident monitoring and investigative response centers in Washington DC, Dublin, and Singapore this year.
Every member of TikTok’s community will be prompted to read the updated guidelines when they open the app in the coming weeks.
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